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Last Wednesday night it became official:
the Cedar Key Chamber of Commerce is the
go-to place for a warm welcome and everything
you need to know about the island.
The crowd who attended the event under the
twinkling lights of the courtyard were the
first guests of the new and improved
Chamber.
Leading the welcome were Chamber
President Tina Ryan and Secretary Andrea
Dennison. A prayer was led by the Rev.
Daniel Carswell. The event was catered by
Peter and Gina Stefani, of the Island Room

Officials of Tarmac King Road Mine company
met with representatives of Cedar Key's clamming
industry on Monday afternoon at the Marine
Lab to discuss water quality issues.
Tarmac requested this meeting to address concerns
raised at a previous meeting in Cedar Key.
Al Townsend, director of real estate and environmental
services, and Jeff Harris, plant manager
for the mine near Inglis, were accompanied by
two consulting hydrologists.
Leslie Sturmer, UF/IFAS Shellfish

A well-attended sign ordinance workshop has opened the
process of revamping the city's confusing and barely
enforced sign ordinance.
The comments at the Tuesday gathering included:
“The quirky, artistic signs are what drew me to Cedar
Key”.
“The cute and quirky signs have given way to cheap and
gaudy”.
“Just because people have gotten away with signs that
didn’t get enforced according to the current sign ordinance

The light was beautiful and the air was crisp Saturday afternoon at City Park, as roughly a dozen people gathered to participate in a flag retirement ceremony. Their ages spanned many decades but both the participants and onlookers all shared an appreciation for the importance of the event.

Two community outreach events focused on connecting citizens with local health, nutrition and other resources will be held in Inglis and Rosewood on Saturday, Nov. 13, by the Levy County Community Outreach Team.
The team, which includes representatives from the Florida Department of Children and Families, the Levy County Health Department, The Children’s Table and Elder Options, will be at the following locations and times:
Inglis Town Hall, 135 Highway 40 West, Inglis, from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m., and

A jury took three hours to decide that newlywed Felicia Fine's death was premeditated 1st degree murder by her husband, Charles Edwin Duke, 24, condemning him to spend the rest of his life in state prison.
The decision on Friday, Oct. 29, came two weeks after what would have been their first wedding anniversary and 358 days after Duke fired one shot from a single-shot .45 caliber handgun into Fine's head at the Rosewood home the couple shared with Duke's friend Justin White.

The light pouring in from the dome’s rectangular opening made silhouettes out of John Novak and the large telescope he built some years back.
“It gathers a huge amount of photons at an accelerated speed,” he explained, staring at his complex assemblage of mirrors, wires and metal parts painted gold and red. “It’s similar to the imager used on the Hubble (Space Telescope).”

Levy County voters on Tuesday turned down a school board referendum to add 0.25 mills to the school district's millage rate starting in the 2011-2012 fiscal year.
Voters turned down the school board referendum by a vote of 6,091-5,916, or 50.72 percent to 49.27 percent. Using this fiscal year's numbers, the vote could cost the school district about $1.5 million over the next two years.